Tagged: community

The Power and Importance of Tradition

Holy Guardian Angels Powerful.  Boniface at Unam Sanctam Catholicam relates two tales that clearly impart the importance of tradition, even when the reasons behind it are lost. Here’s the perfect Restorationist project–something you can...

A Profundity and a Sorrow

St. Jerome Saints are tough, not soft and sweet playbabies.  Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveira makes this point using two pictures of St. Therese and one of the Holy Shroud of Turin, in this...

The Great Leveling

Our Lady of the Snow In this Artsmash blog post, Tim Smith, the fine arts critic at The Baltimore Sun, draws a worrisome conclusion from listening to old recordings and comparing them to the way...

We Put It Out There. . .And We Hope

Sts. John and Paul Catholic historian Christopher Dawson provided the scholarly shoulders on which some of the greatest Christian thinkers and writers of the 20th century stood, according to this Imaginative Conservative essay by...

With a View to the Common Good

St. Silverius Writing for The Imaginative Conservative, Joseph Pearce clarifies the meaning of distributism by putting it in the context of the Catholic principle of subsidiarity.   He gives many helpful examples that should resonate...

Simplicity Leaves Room for God

St. John before the Latin Gate On the occasion of his 61st birthday, David Warren reminisces about the quiet retreats he has been blessed to occupy, striving always for a life apart from the...

It’s the Talk of the Town

Monday of Holy Week Mom and Pop stores play an important role in holding a community together.  In this Smithsonian piece, Natasha Gelling recounts the story of how long-established family businesses are succumbing to...

To Take Care of Each Other

St. Francis Xavier In this poignant essay for CNN, Kerry Egan, a hospice “chaplain”, reveals the truth about those everyday people who care for their dying family members. Kinfolk is a magazine that promotes...

The Ties That Bind

St. Catherine of Alexandria The Baltimore Sun reports on communities looking out for the common good by providing top-quality internet service in order to foster job creation, even when it’s not profitable.   Take notes...

News Roundup: October 16, 2013

Abridge too far?  Comparing two editions of Les Miserables,  Stephen Fitzpatrick discusses what is lost when editors omit what is “in their estimation, long, boring, and arduous;”    “Fr.” Dwight Longenecker reviews Rod Dreher’s...